RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



The office of warden or master was held more 

 than once with other Uvings. In 1 384 Richard II 

 presented the warden, John atte Lee, to a church 

 in South Wales'^; in 1446 the pope provided 

 John Bagot, the then master, to a canonry in 

 the college of South Mailing,'* and in 1526 the 

 master, Thomas Dalison, was rector of Clothall.'* 



As usual it is difficult to discover how long the 

 place was really a hospital. There is no actual 

 reference to the brothers after 1308, though no 

 doubt a community existed there until much 

 later '^ ; but as in 1446 it is styled the hospital 

 or free chapel of Clothall " it had evidently 

 already become a mere chantry, which under 

 the name of hospital " survived until the reign 

 of Edward VI. Its net value was returned in 

 1535 as £3 2J-. 8<i.,'* in 1547-8 as £3 iij-. iij<i." 



Masters or Wardens of Clothall Hospital 



J., chaplain, instituted 1242-3'" 



John, died 1265 " 



Reynold de Little Stokton, instituted 1265,*^ 



resigned 1301 ® 

 Walter de Little Stokton, instituted 1301,8* 



resigned 1314^ 

 John de Wotton, instituted 13 14,*' occurs 



3 December 1325,*' died 1349 ^* 

 John de Leecheworth, instituted 1 349 '' 

 John atte Lee, occurs 16 July 1384^" 



■'■'Cal.Pat. 1381-5, p. 443- 



" Cal. of Papal Letters, viii, 310. 



''*■ Salter, A Subsidy Collected in the Dioc. of Line, in 

 1526, p. 179. 



'^ The human remains found near the traditional 

 site of the hospital seem to indicate that the house 

 had a burial-ground (H. C. Andrews, ' The Hospital 

 of St. Mary Magdalene, Baldock and Clothall,' East 

 Herts. Arch. Soc. Trans, iv, pt. I, 90). 



'^ Cal. of Papal Letters, viii, 310. 



'' It is called hospital in Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 33 Hen. VI, no. 31 ; 4 Edw. IV, no. 25 ; (Ser. 2), 

 i, 134 ; xi, 12 ; free chapel or hospital in the Valor 

 Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 278. 



'8 Falor Eccl. loc. cit. 



'* Chant. Cert. 20, no. 65. It is described here 

 as a free chapel, founded towards finding a priest 

 for ever. The foundation cannot be shown. The 

 chapel was distant from the church a mile or more. 

 It had no plate, jewels, goods or chattels. 



«" Line. Epis. Reg. Grosteste R. 8. 



^1 Clutterbuck, Hist, and Antiq. of Herts, iii, 506. 

 Probably the man instituted by Bishop Grosteste. 



82 Ibid. 



'3 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, fol. 231 d. 

 Reginald occurs 1 290-1 (Lay Subs. R. bdle. 120, 

 no. 2). 



^ Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Dalderby, fol. 231 d. 



85 Ibid. fol. 248. 

 88 Ibid. 



8' Cal. Pat. 1324-7, p. 192. 



88 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Gynwell, fol. 343. 



89 Ibid. 



'°Cfl/. Pat. 1381-S, p. 443- 



46 



William Tamworth** 



John Bagot, occurs October 1446 "^ 



Walter Dyer, instituted 1453,** resigned 1468'* 



John Edom, instituted 1468,'* occurs 20 



October 1473,'' died 1474 »' 

 Wilham Hanford, instituted 1474 "8 

 John Serle, resigned i486 '* 

 William Frank, instituted 1486,1°'' resigned 



1491 1 

 WilUam Exham, instituted 1491," died 1493 * 

 WilHam Awnger, instituted 1493,* died 1502 ' 

 Thomas Dalison, instituted 1502,* occurs 



1526,' died 1 541 8 

 Thomas Boldron, instituted 1541 * 



26. HOSPITAL OF ST. LAUD AND 

 ST. ANTHONY, HODDESDON 



The earliest mention of this hospital is in 1 390, 

 when the Bishop of Ely granted indulgences 

 for the poor and lepers of that house and of 

 St. Margaret, Thetford.^" One of the two seals of 

 the Hoddesdon Hospital, both apparently of 

 the 15 th century, shows that the house was also 

 called St. Clement," so that there was probably 

 at some time a change of dedication.^^ During 

 this period, too, the character of the hospital 

 itself was perhaps altered. It seems to have 

 been originally intended, in part at any rate, 

 for lepers,^^ but in the 16th century it was 



'1 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 3, no. 34. He ex- 

 changed with John Bernard, parson of Elstree, who 

 could not obtain the office vacated and petitioned the 

 chancellor on the subject. The case occurred 

 between 1386 and 141 3. 



82 Cal. of Papal Letters, viii, 310. 



9' Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Chedworth, fol. 186. 



94 Ibid. fol. I99d. 



96 Ibid. 



96 Add. Chart. 35385. 



9' Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Rotheram, fol. 1 1 1 d. 



98 Ibid. 



99 Ibid. Inst. Russell, fol. 138. 



100 Ibid. 



1 Ibid. fol. 142. 



2 Ibid. 



8 Ibid. fol. 144. 



< Ibid. 



6 Ibid. Inst. Smith, fol. 407 d. 



8 Ibid. 



' Salter, op. cit. 179. 



8 Clutterbuck, op. cit. iii, 507. 



9 Line. Epis. Reg. Inst. Longland, fol. 233 d. 



10 Gibbons, Cal. of Ely Epis. Rec. 397. William 

 of the Hospital, one of the tenants of Hoddesdon- 

 bury Manor in 1394 (Tregelles, Hist, of Hoddesdon, 

 229), may have been the master of the house. 



11 B.M. Seals, D.C., G 19. 



12 Tregelles, op. cit. 27. 



18 Mr Tregelles doubts it (op. cit. 235), but the 

 warden said in 1568 (ibid. 231) that the foundation 

 was given for poor lazars, leprous and impotent persons 

 then and thereafter to be maintained. 



